Chapter 204 Wild Honey
After each of the brothers brought a bag of charcoal out, they handed it over to the young man, and asked the young man to carry it to the car by himself.
Then, my uncle returned to the house and found Wu Cuimei.
"Three sisters."
Wu Cuimei was busy washing dishes. When she heard the elder brother's call, she quickly turned her head and asked, "Ah? What's wrong?"
"Hehe." My uncle smiled, "Well, I want to ask you if there is any wild honey this year."
"Honey?" Wu Cuimei was stunned for a moment, and then she remembered that it was already the winter solstice today.
The winter solstice honey that blooms around the winter solstice is the best honey of the year.
In previous years, Qingshan's father would go into the mountains to find wild honey before the winter solstice arrives, so sometimes, when the elder brother and his wife come to celebrate the festival, they often bring back some wild honey.
Last year they came on October 15th and did not get wild honey. This year, the winter solstice is coming, so they naturally have to remember the extremely delicious wild honey.
But......
Wu Cuimei looked at her elder brother with some embarrassment and said, "It's not that I don't want to give it to you, but that my family hasn't gone into the mountains to find honey this year."
"How could it be?" my uncle expressed doubts, "Didn't we go to the mountains to look for honey before the winter solstice?"
"It was true before." Liu Yuanhe walked out of the main hall, took off the hair and socks on his feet, and exposed his injured soles to show his uncle. "Brother, look, I'm a little unlucky this year. The soles of my feet were bitten by an iron clip. In addition, there were too many things at home this year, so I couldn't go into the mountains to find wild honey."
Seeing that there were very obvious scars on Liu Yuanhe's feet, my uncle naturally believed it.
However, in this way, I couldn't help but feel deeply disappointed that I was unable to obtain wild honey.
To be honest, the reason why he came from afar was for wild honey.
Although the straight line distance from their village is only a few dozen kilometers, because they walk along the mountain road and the village road, it takes one to two hours to reach it.
Moreover, the road is bumpy and very hard.
If he hadn't been thinking about delicious wild honey, he might not have come. After all, he was at this age, and even if he could endure the hardship of lion dancing, he might not have been exhausted from the boat. If he had known that there would be no wild honey this year, he would have let his son come alone.
Seeing that my uncle was a little disappointed, Liu Qingshan smiled and said, "Uncle, you want honey so much, so just stay here and go into the mountain with my dad tomorrow to find wild honey. The honey found is half of you, which is much better than my dad giving you a pound or two."
When my uncle heard this, he shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, I am over 60 years old and can't climb the mountain."
"What's wrong with being over sixty?" Liu Qingshan said, "There is an old lady in our village. She is in her eighties and still goes into the mountains to chop wood every day. You are only over sixty and are not old, you can go into the mountains."
"No." My uncle refused without thinking, "Just wait until your dad finds me, just leave me two pounds."
Yes, you just want to get a bargain.
Liu Qingshan turned his head and looked at his cousin who had already moved the charcoal to the car outside the yard and then returned, and smiled and said, "Uncle, if you can't bear this hardship, then just let my cousin stay and go to the mountain with my dad to find honey. My cousin is so young, there must be no problem."
The uncle shook his head: "No, your cousin hasn't even been accustomed to climbing mountains. Isn't it meant to kill him if he wants to climb mountains?"
Liu Qingshan now understands that this uncle just wants something free and good without spending effort.
But in the world, there are so many advantages. If you take advantage of it, what will others eat?
Although he is a relative, Liu Qingshan thinks that it is already very good for me to give you charcoal for free. If you are thinking about the honey in my house, that is yours.
Moreover, what is wild honey? It is a fairy thing worth hundreds of dollars per pound. Let you go with it. You say you are old and ask your son to go there. You feel sorry for your son, and you want to sit and enjoy the fruits. How can such a good thing be in the world?
Don’t say that there is no at home now, even if there is one, I won’t give it to you.
I sympathize with you, but I have to feel sorry for my dad.
In the past, in order not to let my mother lose face in front of her brothers, my father would climb mountains and wader to find honey every year around the winter solstice. He was as tired as a dog, and he would be bitten by bees like a pig every time. But in the end, he had to share one or two pounds for his uncle and second uncle and others after finding ten pounds of honey.
Liu Qingshan had been particularly opposed to this matter before, but his mother was oppressed, so he dared not speak out.
Now, he has become the main income force in his family, with a hard waist and a tough talk. Therefore, if there is really wild honey at home, he will never give it to his uncle and others for free.
Because, they have eaten too much free wild honey at home.
On average, one pound per year has been better. From the time my mother married my father, to now, I have been away for a fraction of it. Even if I have been in 20 years, it will be twenty pounds, twenty pounds per person and forty pounds of two people. Even if it is calculated based on the price of wild honey ten years ago, a pound of wild honey costs 100 yuan, which is 4,000 yuan.
What's more, the price of wild honey is now so popular that it's sold for hundreds of dollars per pound.
Although Liu Qingshan had been thinking so much in his heart, he didn't say it out.
"Since that's the case, there's nothing to do." Liu Qingshan smiled helplessly, "If this happens, there will be no wild honey this year."
"Oh, it's a pity." My uncle felt very regretful.
Liu Qingshan asked with a smile: "Uncle, do you really want honey?"
My uncle felt that there was room for maneuver, so he nodded with his eyes flashing: "Yes, I really like to eat honey. If there is one, I don't want more, just need one pound."
Liu Qingshan said haha: "No problem, you can do as much as you want."
"Really?" My uncle's eyes brighter and brighter when he heard this, "Didn't you just say there wasn't?"
"Hey, my family doesn't have it, it doesn't mean others don't have it. Uncle, let's take you to our village chief's house. Our village chief has got a lot of beehives, which are about a hundred kilograms of honey, and the price is cheap."
"Ah?" my uncle was stunned for a moment and asked, "How much does it cost per pound?"
"It's not expensive, it's only 200 yuan per pound." Liu Qingshan smiled and looked at his uncle who was stupid in the same place, and said, "Let's go, uncle, I'll take you there. You can buy as much as you want. As long as you have money, you can eat whatever you like."
"Then forget it." My uncle paused and said, "Actually, I don't like eating honey very much. It's too sweet. Now I'm old and have bad teeth. I can't eat too much sweet things."
Liu Qingshan smiled and shook his head helplessly.
Chapter completed!